Brush with Infamy
A forgotten artist, a 50-year-old forgery and my unlikely journey into the country’s biggest art fraud case July–August 2017
In September 2016, a Toronto auction house offered one of its periodic online auctions of art. The pieces were Canadian (mainly), of reasonable quality (generally) and would go to the highest bidder (always). Descriptions of each painting included the name of the artist, title of the work (perhaps, in some cases, the imaginative creation of the auction staff) and its…